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Blush Color Palette — Blush Cove

A soft five-color scheme led by warm blush, settled with greige and cream and lifted by a clay accent — every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By David Chen · Formulation Lead & Resident Chemist

Blush has quietly become a neutral. Cove Blush leads here as a soft, dusty pink with enough warmth to feel like a backdrop rather than a statement, and Petal Rose deepens it a shade for places you want a little more body.

To keep things calm, Warm Greige and Linen Cream do the steadying work — they share the same warm undertone as the blush, so nothing fights. That shared warmth is the trick; pick neutrals that lean the same direction as your color and the whole room settles.

Then Soft Clay is the spark. Used in small doses it picks up the terracotta mood you see everywhere in 2026, and it gives the eye somewhere firm to land. Let the blush dominate, the neutrals carry the middle, and the clay show up just enough to be noticed.

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Cove Blush
Dominant
Behr Iced Cherry · S160-1
#E8C7BF
LRV 62
Petal Rose
Secondary
Behr Cottage Rose · PMD-70
#D9A89A
LRV 45
Warm Greige
Base
PPG / Glidden Cool Concrete · PPG1023-2
#D8CFC1
LRV 63
Linen Cream
Support
Glidden Swiss Coffee · 50YY 83/057
#F2ECE1
LRV 83
Soft Clay
Accent
Valspar Deep Clay Red · 2003-7B
#A4624D
LRV 17

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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Tap a swatch for its full guide or + to save it — take any SKU to the store, they mix on demand.

Cove Blush
#E7C6BC · LRV 61 · Dominant
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6057 · ΔE 5.51
Behr · S160-1 · ΔE 0.94
Benjamin Moore · 1192 · ΔE 1.29
Valspar · 8003-12C · ΔE 4
PPG / Glidden · PPG1067-3 · ΔE 1.16
Glidden · PPG1068-3 · ΔE 2.65
Dutch Boy · 304-2DB · ΔE 2.74
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 3057 · ΔE 5.51
Dunn-Edwards · DE6101 · ΔE 2.86
Magnolia Home · JG-26 · ΔE 1.32
Farrow & Ball · NO. 311 · ΔE 7.1
Diamond Vogel · 0042 · ΔE 1.36
Hirshfield's · H0034 · ΔE 2.39
Rodda · CA055 · ΔE 8.55
C2 Paint · BD51 · ΔE 3.41
Clare · PNT100-LT-60 · ΔE 3.03
Portola Paints · GYPSY · ΔE 8.4
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 11.78
Backdrop · BD-AU · ΔE 3.93
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 5.2
Kompozit · 0069 · ΔE 2.78
Petal Rose
#D9A89C · LRV 45 · Secondary
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7581 · ΔE 2.98
Behr · PMD-70 · ΔE 0.83
Benjamin Moore · 046 · ΔE 2.59
Valspar · V081-3 · ΔE 1.44
PPG / Glidden · PPG1057-4 · ΔE 2.71
Glidden · 60YR 57/216 · ΔE 2.71
Dutch Boy · 409-3DB · ΔE 4.08
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 3016 · ΔE 7.22
Dunn-Edwards · DE5185 · ΔE 2.38
Magnolia Home · JG-154 · ΔE 7.03
Farrow & Ball · NO. 9806 · ΔE 3.29
Diamond Vogel · 0049 · ΔE 1.29
Hirshfield's · 0036 · ΔE 3.68
Rodda · R122 · ΔE 7.55
C2 Paint · C2-528 · ΔE 4.61
Clare · PNT100-MD-76 · ΔE 2.6
Portola Paints · HAVANA · ΔE 8.19
Annie Sloan · PALOMA · ΔE 12.76
Backdrop · BD-RO · ΔE 2.07
Rust-Oleum · 285143 · ΔE 18.94
Kompozit · 0036 · ΔE 3.68
Warm Greige
#D8CFC2 · LRV 63 · Base
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9616 · ΔE 1.18
Behr · PPU7-09 · ΔE 0.79
Benjamin Moore · 982 · ΔE 0.93
Valspar · 8005-5A · ΔE 1.02
PPG / Glidden · PPG1023-2 · ΔE 0.45
Glidden · PPG1023-2 · ΔE 0.91
Dutch Boy · 440-1DB · ΔE 0.85
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2497 · ΔE 2.01
Dunn-Edwards · DE6213 · ΔE 0.45
Magnolia Home · JG-55 · ΔE 4.41
Farrow & Ball · NO. 300 · ΔE 0.5
Diamond Vogel · 0224 · ΔE 2.77
Hirshfield's · 0572 · ΔE 2.87
Rodda · R025 · ΔE 1.08
C2 Paint · C2-945 · ΔE 1.58
Clare · PNT100-LT-17 · ΔE 1.31
Portola Paints · FIGUEROA · ΔE 1.9
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 7.29
Backdrop · BD-RR · ΔE 2.3
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 9.23
Kompozit · 0572 · ΔE 2.87
Linen Cream
#F3ECE1 · LRV 84 · Support
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7551 · ΔE 1.4
Behr · PPU5-09 · ΔE 0.93
Benjamin Moore · 2163-70 · ΔE 0.91
Valspar · 7002-14 · ΔE 1
PPG / Glidden · PPG1208-1 · ΔE 2.17
Glidden · 50YY 83/057 · ΔE 0.5
Dutch Boy · 021W · ΔE 1.89
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4030 · ΔE 1.4
Dunn-Edwards · DE6120 · ΔE 1.69
Magnolia Home · JG-111 · ΔE 2.97
Farrow & Ball · NO. 2003 · ΔE 1.76
Diamond Vogel · 0003 · ΔE 0.58
Hirshfield's · 0003 · ΔE 0.56
Rodda · CA007 · ΔE 0.79
C2 Paint · C2-676 · ΔE 1.26
Clare · PNT100-LT-24 · ΔE 2.35
Portola Paints · KASHMIR · ΔE 1.11
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 11.19
Backdrop · BD-JA · ΔE 2.37
Rust-Oleum · 329598 · ΔE 5.14
Kompozit · 0003 · ΔE 0.56
Soft Clay
#A8624E · LRV 18 · Accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 40 · ΔE 1.11
Behr · HDC-CL-08 · ΔE 3.39
Benjamin Moore · 2174-30 · ΔE 1.29
Valspar · 2003-7B · ΔE 1.09
PPG / Glidden · PPG1058-6 · ΔE 3.49
Glidden · 30YR 17/341 · ΔE 2.45
Dutch Boy · 308-6DB · ΔE 2.24
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2073 · ΔE 3.59
Dunn-Edwards · DE5188 · ΔE 1.87
Magnolia Home · JG-36 · ΔE 5.61
Farrow & Ball · NO. 50 · ΔE 3.2
Diamond Vogel · 0039 · ΔE 3.15
Hirshfield's · 0052 · ΔE 1.32
Rodda · CA224 · ΔE 2.05
C2 Paint · BD46 · ΔE 2.98
Clare · PNT100-DP-30 · ΔE 6.92
Portola Paints · MIEL · ΔE 10.24
Annie Sloan · COCO · ΔE 18.16
Backdrop · BD-BA · ΔE 13.05
Rust-Oleum · 329211 · ΔE 12.88
Kompozit · 0052 · ΔE 1.32

Questions

Why does blush work as the main color here?

Blush reads as a warm neutral once you live with it, so it carries a whole scheme the way beige used to. The greige and cream keep it grounded, and the clay accent stops it from feeling too sweet.

How much of the clay accent should I use?

Keep it small — think one-fifth of the room at most, on a door, a chair, or trim. A little of that warm clay makes the blush look intentional rather than pastel.

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